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Colum McCann, Phillip Hoose Among National Book Awards Winners

Posted at 7:36AM Thursday 19 Nov 2009

Novelist Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin (Random House); Gore Vidal (awarded the medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters) was rambling, witty and profound as he recounted his life while sitting in a wheel chair on the podium; and master of ceremonies, humorist Andy Borowitz, sent everyone home at about 10:44 pm with a crack about Sarah Palin's new memoir, Going Rogue, being an early candidate for the 2010 NBA fiction prize.

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